One hundred and twenty-six investigators and data collectors of the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS), attended training on Road Accident Data Management System (RADMS), in Accra.
The event that was organised by the MTTD with support from the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA), aimed at strengthening the professional capacity of participants with skills and competencies, for effective collection of data on road accident for effective traffic management.
The participants were selected from police administration regions of Eastern South, Central East, Central Western, Central, Eastern, Volta North, Volta, Tema and Accra, out of the 25 regions in the country.
The Acting Director-General of the NRSA, Mr David Osafo Adonteng, noted that data collection and analysis on road accidents, was done manually by the police.
He urged the participants to take the training seriously so that they could replace old process of data collection and analysis to improve road crash database management and road safety in the country.
Mr Adonteng gave the assurance that the NRSA would partner stakeholders in reducing road crashes in the country.
“Road safety is a shared and collective responsibility, through our collective effort we can reduce road traffic crashes and associated casualties to the barest minimum,” he noted.
The Director of Operation of the MTTD, Chief Superintendent Dr Samuel Sasu-Mensah, said the training formed part of efforts to transform the MTTD and replace existing process of manually collecting data on road traffic crash with an effective web base tool.
He said the training was a follow-up to an initiative to make the MTTD a world class accident data collection institution, to improve road safety in the country.
Chief Sup Sasu-Mensah stated that the training would be replicated in other regions.
He urged investigators and data collectors to put into practice skills acquired, and eschew negative practice.
As part of the programme, the NRSA presented 70 mobile tablets, 30 computers and its accessories, printers, Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS), and anti-virusdevices, to support MTTD personnel in data collection.
BY ANITA NYARKO-YIRENKYI
